Hiring an Expert
Examples and Resources
Wetlands, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Wal-Mart often submits a plan that calls for wetlands to be destroyed, and replicated somewhere else. Citizens groups should insist that whatever design has been submitted, it be reworked to avoid the wetland area completely. It may also be necessary for the citizens group to either hire a hydrologist…
Rockville Concerned Citizens For Responsible Development (2004)
Water-related issues can sink a Wal-Mart proposal. In Vernon, Connecticut, for example, an 186,000 s.f. Wal-Mart supercenter was defeated in part due to water-related issues. The Inland Wetlands Commission in that town determined that the supercenter would cause unreasonable pollution to the area…
Every Wal-Mart project must propose a stormwater management system designed to maintain quality and quantity of stormwater runoff to pre-development levels. These projects often have stormwater ponds, which is a land depression created for the detention or retention of stormwater runoff. The goal…
Yakima, WA Wal-Mart Supercenter Store Noise Study Report (2004)
This developer-produced report concludes that, with some mitigation, the noise generated by trash compactors, trailer truck deliveries, garbage truck collection, pneumatic tire wrenches, roof-top HVAC, parking lot sweepers, and customer vehicles for a 24 hours a 65 day, 7 days a week Wal-Mart Supercenter,…
What Happened When Wal-Mart Came To Town? (1996)
National Trust For Historic Preservation’s analysis of seven Iowa counties. “Wal-Mart stores, at least in Iowa, create few if any net additions to retail employment…Opening a Wal-Mart results in a redistribution of jobs from other, mostly smaller businesses to Wal-Mart.” From 77% to 100% of…
Wal-Mart Imports From China, Exports Ohio Jobs (2005)
This report, prepared by the AFL-CIO Wal-Mart Campaign, tells the stories of four Ohio companies that sell to Wal-Mart. The loss of jobs at the Huffy Corp., Rubbermaid, Mr. Coffee and Thomson factories in Ohio demonstrates how Wal-Mart pressures suppliers to send Ohio jobs overseas. The study concludes…
Wal-Mart’s Impacts On the American Supermarket Industry. (2004)
This DSR Marketing System study focuses on Oklahoma City, OK. “Between July, 1998 and the end of 2003, 31 supermarkets in the Oklahoma City area, representing a total of 1.24 million square feet of floor space, have closed and remain vacant…The opening of 17 new Wal-Mart grocery stores has already…
Global Credit Services. Finds that “so many dollars of finished goods are flowing through Wal-Mart to consumers that many other retailing firms will not be able to generate the level of revenue growth necessary to help fund their debts. There is not enough residual dollars left in the consumer economy…
Wal-Mart and County-Wide Poverty (2004)
This Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology study from Pennsylvania State University, examined the impact of Wal-Mart stores on county-level family poverty, and found “the presence of Wal-Mart unequivocally raised family poverty rates in US counties during the 1990s relative to…
Impact of the Wal-Mart Phenomenon On Rural Communities (1997)
Ken Stone. “The leakage of retail trade from small towns has accelerated in the last two decades with the rapid proliferation of discount mass merchandiser stores in the larger towns and cities. Studies in Iowa have shown that some towns below 5,000 population have lost nearly half their retail…
